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With a final tally posted by Cape May County officials Wednesday, 3rd Ward Ocean City Council incumbent Jody Levchuk held his razor-thin margin over challenger Amie Vaules at 402 votes to 400.

A week after the Ocean City municipal election, the winner of the 3rd Ward City Council race remains an open question, too close to call until results are certified Wednesday.

Ocean City voters favored newcomer Sean Barnes over former Council member Michael DeVlieger in Tuesday’s City Council election, at 1,778 to 1,261, according to a tally released by the city.

While some towns have a brawling political style, Ocean City tends to keep on the kid gloves even in hotly contested races. That changed Monday, when a candidate accused members of council by name of being pawns of the mayor and the mayor of being indebted to developers.

The Ocean City Regional Chamber of Commerce installed its new Board of Directors and officers Feb. 29 at the Ocean City Yacht Club.

OCEAN CITY, N.J. - Known as "America's Greatest Family Resort," this beachside city now has a new distinction: It has become the epicenter of opposition to wind energy projects off New Jersey and the East Coast. Residents of Ocean City and surrounding Cape May County, helped by an outside group opposed to renewable energy, are mobilizing to stop Ocean Wind 1, a proposal to build up to 98 wind turbines the size of skyscrapers off the New Jersey coast, which could power half a milli...

Ocean City, N.J. ― Known as "America's Greatest Family Resort," this beachside city now has a new distinction: It has become the epicenter of opposition to wind energy projects off New Jersey and the...

Many in Ocean City oppose a major wind farm to be built off their shores, and hope to create a template for blocking similar projects along the coast.

A day after the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approvals for the Danish energy company, Orsted, to run a transmission line through Ocean City to connect an offshore wind energy farm to a land-based power grid, the public had their say. In two separate Zoom meetings, one in the morning, Thursday, and the other in the evening, the BPU heard from the parties that would be affected, Ocean City, Cape May County, and other stakeholders. They voiced concerns that the line could disrupt an environ...

Ocean City Councilman Tom Rotondi did not concede Tuesday when just 48 votes separated him from his opponent Pete Madden for the third at-large seat in the municipal election. Rotondi said he would await the final tallies and the official vote totals once all of the mail-in ballots and provisional ballots were received and counted.